THE IMPACT

THE LIFENET WAY
HAS TRANSFORMED 380+ HEALTH FACILITIES IN AFRICA

We have expanded our partner network to 410+ faith-based health centers and hospitals in Uganda, Burundi, Malawi, Ghana, Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. These health facilities are committed to providing high quality healthcare to their vulnerable communities. They demonstrate drastic improvement in the quality of care they provide as they care for more than 7.5 million patient visits a year. In 2022, these health facilities saved the lives of 3,984 mothers and newborns at birth.

THE RESULTS

THE LIFENET WAY ENSURES LONGTERM IMPROVEMENTS

We apply our Quality Score Card (QSC) after every module of training to measure partners’ performance across key areas. These include pharmacy operations, management, and clinical practices. To create the QSC, our nursing and public health specialists drew on standards established by local Ministries of Health, as well as the USAID/Smiling Sun Health Services Quality and Monitoring Supervision Clinic Preparedness Guide, January 2010 and the IFC Self-Assessment Guide for Health Care Organizations from the Joint Commission International.

The QSC covers all indicators that the Ministries of Health include in their own health center evaluations and then goes beyond to quantify staff adherence to LifeNet-taught, internationally recognized, best practices. With it, we calculate a robust composite score for each health center that indicates the impact of our interventions on health care quality over time. In addition to the QSC, we also administer pre- and post-training tests to monitor partner center staff at the individual level. We regularly see drastic increases in individual scores as many healthcare providers receive training in these best practices for the first time.